· Background Hound collects personal information when you purchase from Background Hound, when you use Background Hound products or services. Background Hound may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

· When you purchase services or contact us, we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some services we may also ask for your address and Social Security number. Once you purchase and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

· Background Hound uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services and contact you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

· Background Hound does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

· We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Background Hound under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Background Hound communicate with you about offers from Background Hound and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

· We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

· We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Background Hound terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

· We transfer information about you if Background Hound is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Background Hound will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

· Background Hound does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

· We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

· We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

· Background Hound may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat accounts by placing a prominent notice on our site.